DawsonyWeb – Security Shield Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
DawsonyWeb Security Shield protects your WordPress site from comment spam and unauthorised API access.
Comment Protection
- Master switch to completely disable all comments (form, REST API, XML-RPC, feeds)
- Invisible honeypot field to trap bots
- Minimum comment length enforcement
- Block all links or cap links per comment
- Require login to comment
- Keyword/phrase blocklist
API & REST Hardening
- Disable XML-RPC entirely (removes X-Pingback header too)
- Hide
/wp/v2/usersendpoint to prevent username harvesting - Require authentication for all REST API requests
- Optionally disable the REST API completely
- Block author enumeration via
/?author=N
Spam Rules
- Per-IP comment rate limiting (configurable max and time window)
- IP address blocklist — blocked IPs receive a 403 on any front-end request
- Rolling activity log (last 200 events)
Screenshots
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